Cody Rhodes and Goldust | |
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Goldust (left) and Cody Rhodes (right) in November 2013.
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Tag team | |
Members |
Cody Rhodes / Stardust Goldust |
Name(s) | The Brotherhood Cody Rhodes and Goldust Gold and Stardust The Rhodes Brothers |
Heights | Cody: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Goldust: 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
Combined weight |
452 lb (205 kg) |
Debut | October 6, 2013 |
Disbanded | February 16, 2015 |
Years active | 2013–2015 |
Promotions | WWE |
Cody Rhodes and Goldust (also known as The Brotherhood,The Rhodes Brothers, and later Gold and Stardust) were a professional wrestling tag team that competed in WWE. Cody and Goldust are half-brothers in real life and were once managed by their father, WWE Hall of Famer "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes.
The tag team was formed when Cody was fired from the WWE after losing to Randy Orton in a match prompted by Cody's questioning of the company's chief operating officer Triple H's authority. The following week, Goldust fought Orton in an attempt to have Cody rehired, but was also fired after he lost. Dusty attempted to convince The Authority to rehire his sons. Eventually, Triple H and his wife Stephanie McMahon decided that the half-brothers would face the two members of The Shield, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, at Battleground, but stipulated that if Cody and Goldust lost, they would never work in the WWE again and Dusty would lose his job as a trainer at the Performance Center. This match marked the debut of Cody and Goldust as a tag team and their victory over Reigns and Rollins led to an immediate return of their jobs. However, after almost eight months, they were disbanded at Payback due to the number of times Cody and Goldust lost. Cody suddenly returned to revive the tag team in June 2014 on Raw under his new gimmick as "Stardust".